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GEORGE Washington could have turned into a Frankenstein’s monster had his personal physician prevailed. In “Strange But True, America,” out in August from Lone Pine, John Hafnor and Dale Crawford reveal that when the father of our country died at age 67, his body was packed in ice. “Dr. William Thornton proposed thawing the body — first in cool water and then with warm blankets and rubbing of the skin, with a subsequent tracheotomy, artificial respiration at the tracheotomy site and a transfusion of lamb’s blood,” they write. Luckily, Martha Washington firmly vetoed Thornton’s bizarre plan for an attempted resurrection.